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Gentrification is when the wrong people shoot fireworks and/or call the police on the right people shooting fireworks.
The virgin "Gentrification is the most well defined concept in urban studies, ever" versus the chad "Gentrification is when people I don't like do a thing"
As a certified Toddler Haver™, I would be fine with the police breaking up an "assembly" of people igniting explosives at midnight.
"The only thing that makes cities even a little fun is antisocial behavior"
I guess the difference is that in her own case, she just complained on Twitter about a thing rather than call the cops, but I don't think the gap between "X is flagrantly antisocial behavior that harms many people" and "the police should stop X" is an unbridgeable chasm
like. Creating a fire hazard and tons of noise in a densely populated area after dark is a violation of the social contract, and violations of the social contract should entail risk
Certainly seems inconsistent to use both of these as examples of gentrification
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What spontaneous activity is gentrification killing? People in my neighborhood still hang out outside, play music, open up the fire hydrants, shoot fireworks. A couple white people didn't change anything.
I would guess that a place where people still commonly open fire hydrants in the summer would not be considered gentrified by most people.
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rahhh!!! made up scenario in my head, i’m so angry!!! this perfectly represents america!!! twitter.com/taconicst/stat
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My dog hated the fireworks when I lived in the suburbs of Stuttgart; my dog hates the fireworks now that I'm back in Flatbush, Brooklyn
I mean, I was bitching about all the fireworks in my neighborhood last night too, but I’m never going to DO anything about it. 